Yet Another Web Site

A new twist on the old Nigerian scam…

From: PETERSON PHILIP <ppunocompensation@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:37:32 -0700
Subject: REF/PAYMENTS CODE: FGN/FINPLC/06654/09 ($3.5Million USD)

United Nations Organization
Office of PETERSON PHILIP
Director International Fraud
Surveillance and Control.
New York, NY 10027

Notice the absence of a complete address (no street address, office, etc.). Also, the United Nations has a 10017 zip code…

claimdivision2009@live.com

One would think the United Nations would have its own email domain.

Attn: Beneficiary——

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: FGN/FINPLC/06654/09 ($3.5Million USD)

The International Human Right Commission of the United Nations, have agreed to compensate 100 victims of Internet scam with the sum of $3.5USD (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only) each, out of 7.8 million victims identified. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims.

Because The World Bank have listed Nigeria as the most corrupt country in the world, and majority of these scam artists are from the country, Nigeria provided over 80% of the compensation fund through crude oil. Therefore payments are made to identify victims through the most reliable International Bank in Nigeria under the funding assistance of the World Bank and United Nations Organization. Since the commencement of this program in April 2009, 53 Beneficiaries has been paid, remaining 47 scam victims to be paid. United States/United Kingdom Foundation (USUKF) is the Independent Monitoring Agency.

According to Google, the “United States/United Kingdom Foundation” does not exists.

You are required to forward the following information.

1 Your full name:
2 Your mailing address:
3 Your phone number:
4 Your file reference number stated above,
5 Your age:
6 Profession:

7 Please note that you MUST send above information (1-7) to the under listed email address as soon as possible but not later than (10) days from the date of this mail.

PETERSON PHILIP

Telephone 206-350-9575

In the United States, 206 is the area code for Seattle, not New York City.

Hitler finds out that Amps have been legalized:

With the addition of amplification and electronics, and the inevitable addition of woodwinds and other instruments, can this be the future of drum corps?

We report, you decide:

The author of the above post, also posted the response (typos are preserved):

mikey, on September 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pm Said:

President Obama fromhis book Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’

It took less than 2 minutes to find out the source of the quote (a right wing email that’s been making the rounds). Here’s what FactCheck.org has to say:

A second false quote has Obama saying he would “stand with the Muslims,” words that don’t appear in his book. What he actually said is that he would stand with American immigrants from Pakistan or Arab countries should they be faced with something like the forced detention of Japanese-American families in World War II:

Misleading e-mail: From Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

Actual quote from “The Audacity of Hope” [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Obama did not say he would side with “the Muslims,” which could easily be read as meaning he would side with the world’s Muslim population even if it meant working outside the best interests of the United States. He said he would side with “them,” referring back to his mention of immigrant communities and specifically to “Arab and Pakistani Americans.” Furthermore, he was speaking of an “ugly direction” like the mass internment of Japanese Americans.

This false quote goes hand in hand with the equally false rumor that Obama is a Muslim.

It’s pretty clear the quote is taken out of context and has nothing much to do with Israel. Obama was clearly speaking of something like a mass internment of Muslims like that of Japanese Americans during WWII. Are we to assume the author of the post/comment was intellectually incurious about the alleged Obama quote because it fit his world view, or is he willfully spreading a lie?

Check out snopes.com for more information.

Avast! It be September 19th…

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
— H. L. Mencken

Science Project Fail

Hypothesis: I predict that the fatest worm will blow up the quickest & blow up more GUTS!

Is that a Confederate flag in the lower right hand corner? WTF?

(via Eschaton)

OH NOES! Communists:

The ghost fleet of the recession anchored just east of Singapore:

Here, on a sleepy stretch of shoreline at the far end of Asia, is surely the biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history. Their numbers are equivalent to the entire British and American navies combined; their tonnage is far greater. Container ships, bulk carriers, oil tankers – all should be steaming fully laden between China, Britain, Europe and the US, stocking camera shops, PC Worlds and Argos depots ahead of the retail pandemonium of 2009. But their water has been stolen.

They are a powerful and tangible representation of the hurricanes that have been wrought by the global economic crisis; an iron curtain drawn along the coastline of the southern edge of Malaysia’s rural Johor state, 50 miles east of Singapore harbour.

One may want to hold off on investing in ship building for now…

Are we THERE yet?